Analysis of cost in the nursing: integrative review

Financial violence: an increasingly common practice of violence against the elderly

“…Despite the existing public policies in the country to protect the elderly, the prevalence of financial violence against the elderly represents 7.8% of cases of family violence in Brazil, and the home environment is one of the main places of its occurrence (SANTOS et al, 2018). In the present study, this prevalence reached the mark of approximately 100% in all areas studied (Table 1), showing that the city of Manaus is far beyond the national average.…”

“…The main risk factors that make the elderly vulnerable to suffer financial violence are: unemployment, low income, low social support, not associating this type of violence with the term "elder abuse," having impairment in Activities of Daily Living and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living, having a family member with a strong sense of entitlement to the elderly's property, feeling frightened by a family member, the elderly not knowing their rights, having cognitive, physical, health problems, frailty, and being a widower (SANTOS et al, 2018).…”

“…A survey conducted in Ireland showed that this violence is a much smaller social problem than the one found in our research. In Ireland, financial violence was the second most common type, reported by 2.1% of the elderly, but 60% of them reported it (SANTOS et al, 2018).…”

“…In the world, the financial exploitation of the elderly has its data masked by the other types of violence, despite the frequency and severity, since the prevalence is estimated between 0.7% to 14.4%, and allows us to infer that the data regarding this type of violence is still underestimated when related to reality (SANTOS et al, 2018).…”

The role of a nurse in the management of medical-hospital material: an integrative review

“…has drawn attention to a recent theme in national nursing literature: the costs related to nursing services. It is considered that knowledge of nursing costs is a management tool that allows nurses to scale the available resources and make decisions based on the best scientific evidence (12) .…”